Paul.. do I understand you correctly. Are you saying that a search engine spider will navigate through my static Link category pages, through the jump.cgi and somehow find the actual link in the database?

Yes, if you are using templates in your Links2.0 to build your static pages, then all search engines which spider the web (altavista, google, etc.,) will spider your pages and make them available on their search engines.

Yahoo is not a search engine and it does not have a robot. However, since yahoo uses google for showing search results, any pages spidered by google will be available on yahoo.

Jump.cgi in Links2.0 has nothing to do with it (spidering) - it is used just to redirect your users to specific links.

What I WANT is the search engines to locate the ACTUAL URL to my linked sites. As far as I can tell, that is not possible. Or is it?

Reason: Reciprocal links are important to my site. Most link popularity algorithms look not only at other similar sites linked to us, but also those sites we are linked to. Therefore it's imprtant that crawlers see those links.

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